In my understanding, Intrepid was rantingcomplaining about the quality of the warning message, which I find correct: the error message should be changed.

I'm no Microsoft advocate, but in this case I'd say that the problem isn't in the OS, but in the utilities. If something is technically supported, but used in the wrong manner, I wouldn't say that it doesn't really work. As PodMaster correctly points out, an application invoking the shell should quote its arguments to get them understood well; so, it's possible to use the feature without breaking anything.

This doesn't happen for ActiveState Perl, in which case the warning message should read "We have more interesting things to do other than fixing that spaces-in-paths issue in all stuff, so don't put spaces in your installation paths and you'll live happy".

Flavio (perl -e 'print(scalar(reverse("\nti.xittelop\@oivalf")))')

Don't fool yourself.

In reply to Re^2: The Evil Embedded Space by polettix
in thread The Evil Embedded Space by Intrepid

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